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lvanryzin

These Harvard And MIT Kids Say They've Made NSA-Proof Email - 1 views

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    These people were prompted to create a easy, secure email service. They incorporated in Switzerland as it has much more stringent privacy laws than we have in America.
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    Great find! At some point this semester, we're all going to learn how to use encrypted email. We might try out a few different systems, including ProtonMail, and compare them.
Derek Bruff

First Library to Support Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email -... - 1 views

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    A small town library in New Hampshire joins the anonymous Web surfing service Tor. Then the Department of Homeland Security shows up.
Derek Bruff

How to Encrypt Your Email and Keep Your Conversations Private - 0 views

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    We'll give Mailvelope (the webmail encryption tool) a try in class tomorrow. See Step Three for instructions.
Kristin Davis

Why encryption would not have saved General Petraeus - 1 views

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    A summary of why encryption wouldn't have prevented General Petraeus from getting caught. Like the quote: "If you think cryptography is the solution to your problem, you either don't understand cryptography or you don't understand your problem."
Derek Bruff

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program... - 0 views

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    Has the government been reading your email, Facebook posts, tweets, etc.? Yes, yes they have.
Derek Bruff

How Joe Biden Accidentally Helped Us All E-Mail in Private | Danger Room | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Nice write-up in Wired's "Danger Room" column on Phil Zimmerman, who was recently inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
Derek Bruff

Republicans are coming for your browsing histories, not your guns | VICE News - 0 views

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    Senator John McCain has filed an amendment that would allow the FBI to retrieve email metadata and web browsing history without warrants. He's proposing we expand use of National Security Letters, which get around the need for warrants and often come with gag orders, so that if you receive an NSL asking for data, you can't tell anyone about it.
Derek Bruff

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications | UK news | gu... - 0 views

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    Hey, look, the British are reading our emails, too...
mariannas

Review: Blackphone Trades Some Convenience for Security - 1 views

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    This article is about a smartphone that's designed specifically to help you keep your personal information secure--it lets you easily encrypt your calls and texts and search the internet privately. There's also a video about ways to encrypt your email.
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    Nice find. I'm reminded of DuckDuckGo, https://duckduckgo.com/, the search engine that doesn't track you. At all.
mariannas

Online Shopping | StaySafeOnline.org - 0 views

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    Keep a paper trail: Print and save records of your online transactions, including the product description, price, online receipt, terms of the sale, and copies of any email exchange with the seller. Read your credit card statements as soon as you get them to make sure there aren't any unauthorized charges.
Derek Bruff

New Tech City: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography - WNYC - 0 views

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    Here's a podcast interview with Bill Binney and Ladar Levison, both featured in Citizenfour. Binney was the former NSA crypto expert we saw testifying in the film a couple of times, and Levison was the guy who ran the secure email service Lavabit that he felt compelled to shut down.
Ling Shi

Cryptography in Network Security - 2 views

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    This is the e-text of a book that discusses online network encryption and application. The chapters cover various encryption methods for the transfer of data online, as well as the application of wireless, email, IP network security
Derek Bruff

5 Gmail lessons from Petraeus affair - POLITICO - 1 views

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    I got the General Petraeus story a bit wrong. He and his friend weren't using Google docs to communicate, they used a shared Gmail account. They would sometimes draft, but not send emails, as an extra measure of security, but, as this article points out, that doesn't work.
Derek Bruff

The Learning Analytics Landscape: Tension Between Student Privacy and the Process of Da... - 1 views

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    Here's an example of surveillance vs. privacy that doesn't involve security. Instead, the goal is student learning.
wmcrae

Google's Student Data-Mining Scandal | National Review - 2 views

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    "Over the past four years, Google has admitted 'scanning and indexing' student email messages and data mining student users for commercial gain." What to take away? Data mining is present everywhere and better encryption is becoming more and more relevant in the digital life of a college student in 2018.
csnell14

Facebook Hack Compromised 30 Million People, Exposing Phone Numbers, Emails - 0 views

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    College students should be on the lookout for breaches in their social media accounts. In this digital age, college kids put most of their information on their social media accounts and should take the necessary precautions to create secure passwords.
Derek Bruff

Analysis of Declaraction of Independence Word Frequency in the Beale Ciphers - 0 views

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    Here's the paper that Robert Ward of Maryland shared with me via email last year. The stats look solid to me, although I didn't check his p-values. Let me know if you work this into any of your projects this fall!
smohite1

How "omnipotent" hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years-and were found at last | Ars Tech... - 1 views

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    Try to avoid opening emails from senders you don't 100% trust and know. Also, routinely check your PC using some kind of antivirus or data scrubbing software to ensure your system hasn't accrued keyloggers or malware that might give bad actors sensitive personal information.
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